Quality Conversation

Over the last four years, with the guidance and collective leadership of Chicago's arts education community, tremendous progress has been made to increase arts education access for all CPS students. But now that we know how much of the arts exist in CPS, we must collectively ask, how good is it? With this in mind, we will begin exploring the question we hear over and over again from the arts partner community: “what about quality?”

Goals of the Initiative

Create a definition of quality in arts partner teaching and learning.

Create an Arts Partner Quality Framework/Toolkit that utilizes that definition of quality and gives all arts educators a common language to talk about arts teaching and learning.

Similar to the Chicago Arts Learning Initiative (CALI) process, over the next year Ingenuity will be hosting a series of conversations and planning sessions via the new Quality Initiative. The entire development process and the resulting new quality system will be designed by the arts partner community.